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Behind him, on dry land, Seamari Joe's aggressive, left-wing union made more history. It threw the longest picket line of World War II (1,500 men) around the boxlike World-Telegram building in lower Manhattan to protest the labor-baiting writings of Scripps-Howard Columnist Westbrook Pegler...
...belted N.M.U. harder or more consistently than Columnist Pegler. He has pictured N.M.U. as a Communist cell attempting to convert all of U.S. labor; has accused Joe Curran of draft dodging. (Curran, married but childless, was deferred as an essential worker, i.e., labor leader.) But what most infuriated N.M.U.ers-who boil over at the mere mention of Pegler's sleeping-car first name-was the columnist's revival of the old scuttlebutt, repeatedly and officially denied, that U.S. merchant sailors mutinied at Guadalcanal...
...Irish matter there is no argument in all Eire: the favorite Irish newspaper columnist is Brian O'Nolan, who writes for Dublin's Irish Times. He is small, dark, young (31). The impish O'Nolan, a novelist, playwright and civil servant, writes a six-a-week column titled Cruiskeen Lawn (The Little Overflowing Jug) under the pseudonym Myles na gCopaleen (pronounced Copaleen, means Myles of the Little Horses...
Tyrone to Tipperary. People who have sought O'Nolan since he became Eire's favorite columnist have had a hard time finding him. A conscientious, hard working civil servant, adept at answering letters, his days are busy with matters of state (e.g., settling claims for a recent orphanage fire). He passes as few nights as possible with the metropolitan arty crowd; among them he is a good drinker, poor conversationalist. He prefers the talk at the tough bars and quayside pubs...
...Fifth Avenue, men wore what they wanted: house slippers and hunting jack ets, overalls, bathing trunks, mandarin robes. Columnist Lucius Beebe appeared in front of De Pinna's garbed in lilac butler's livery...